A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.